Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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. Own the reliability of infrastructure supporting every product team, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $213,000 - $229,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in reliability engineering, focusing on infrastructure management across GCP and Kubernetes, while driving cross-team collaboration and tool automation to enhance system performance and reliability.

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GCP Infrastructure ManagementKubernetes Production ExperienceReliability EngineeringTool Automation DevelopmentSLO Definition and Implementation

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Hard Skills

Software Engineering FundamentalsProduction Code DevelopmentAutoscalingCapacity ManagementLatency Problem IdentificationReliability Problem FixingCross-Team CollaborationInfrastructure Project Leadership

Soft Skills

Independent Problem SolvingLeadership Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

GCPKubernetesPostgres

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure ReliabilitySystem Health MonitoringEngineering Practices Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the reliability of infrastructure supporting every product team, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects
Design and build software that removes manual on-call intervention and recurring toil
Lead infrastructure projects end to end
Identify and fix latency or reliability problems caused by cost-driven limits and trade-offs
Build tooling that provides an overview of system health across GCP projects
Define SLOs with product teams
Improve reliability practices across engineering
Pioneer reliability engineering for agent-first production systems
Work across teams and with leadership to determine infrastructure direction

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid software engineering fundamentals and raw coding ability
Production code as the default way of solving problems
Hands-on experience running GCP or a comparable cloud at production scale
Hands-on experience running Kubernetes at production scale
Experience with autoscaling and capacity management
Experience building tools and automation depended on by other engineers
Ability to drive ambiguous, cross-team reliability work independently from diagnosis to shipped fix
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship is required now or in the future

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote-first workplace
Office in San Francisco, California
Equal employment opportunity and inclusive workplace
Voluntary self-identification information is confidential and separate from personnel records